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Dan — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:30:32 +0000

I would not give a penny for your love of truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error. - C.H. Spurgeon Related posts:Weekly Wisdom Weekly Wisdom Weekly Wisdom Related posts:

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Dan — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:41:38 +0000

“God never clothes men until He has first stripped them, nor does He quicken them by the gospel till first they are slain by the Law. When you meet with persons in whom there is no trace of conviction of sin, you may be quite sure that they have not been wrought upon by the Holy Spirit; for ‘when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.’”

-C.H. Spurgeon

For Sale: The Gospel

Dan — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:30:28 +0000

I think this is true of Christianity in general, not just American Lutheranism. Read this quote:

“The optimism and synergism prevalent in America have made such inroads into American Lutheranism that the Augsburg Confession’s ‘where and when it pleases God’ has for practical purposes been given up. Evidence of this is the uncritical taking over of ideas and programs of stewardship and evangelism from such groups as the Seventh Day Adventists. The pastor schools the people so that with the right kind of pious talk they will then be equipped to win other people for the church. In place of the office of preaching reconciliation comes the training of ‘soul-winners,’ teaching them just the right way of talking with people, to make maximum use of the techniques of psychological manipulation. The system admittedly derives from the methods of American business. Thus people are to be brought into the church, made to feel at home there, led to a decision, and then all together are to carry on their building of the kingdom of God. What the Word of God is no longer trusted to do is achieved with the psychological techniques of modern evangelization. There is of course talk of the Holy Spirit, but one no longer knows who He is. It seems He can be measured and quantified. Such evangelism produces results. Thousands are won for church membership. On the other hand we may recall the failure of the Biblical prophets and of our Lord Himself. When one considers the latter, one begins to understand the full earnestness of ‘where and when it pleases God.’ Jesus said: ‘…so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again and be forgiven’(Mark 4:12; cf. Is.6:9-10). Whoever is not awed by what is hidden deep in these words will never truly know the Holy Spirit.”

SOURCE: Hermann Sasse, “On the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Letters to Lutheran Pastors, No. 51 July/August 1960 in “We Confess the Church,” translated by Norman Nagel (St Louis: CPH, 1986)

H/T Cyberbrethren

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Dan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:02:45 +0000

“A great many of those who ‘debunk’ traditional values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.” ~ C.S. Lewis Related posts:Weekly Wisdom Weekly Wisdom Weekly Wisdom Related posts:

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Dan — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:30:40 +0000

“The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way.”
–Leonard Ravenhill

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Dan — Sat, 29 May 2010 08:30:10 +0000

“…Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity … is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men’s lives.” –Soren Kierkegaard Related posts:Weekly Wisdom Weekly Wisdom Weekly Wisdom Related posts:

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Dan — Sat, 22 May 2010 08:30:07 +0000

“Many Christians have what we might call a “cultural holiness”. They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them. As the Christian culture around them is more or less holy, so these Christians are more or less holy. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.”
–Jerry Bridges

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Dan — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:30:38 +0000

“Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.” - Jerry Bridges Related posts:Weekly Wisdom Weekly Wisdom Weekly Wisdom Related posts:

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Dan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:29:40 +0000

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.” ~St. Augustine Related posts:Weekly Wisdom Weekly Wisdom Weekly Wisdom Related posts:

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Dan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:13:51 +0000

“What God’s Word really means when it says that man is justified and saved by faith alone is nothing else than this: Man is not saved by his own acts, but solely by the doing and dying of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the whole world. Over against this teaching modern theologians assert that in the salvation of man two kinds of activity must be noted: in the first place, there is something that God must do. His part is the most difficult, for He must accomplish the task of redeeming men. But in the second place something is required that man must do. For it will not do to admit persons to heaven, after they have been redeemed, without further parley (talk). Man must do something really great – he has to believe. This teaching overthrows the Gospel completely.” – C.F.W. Walther